with Phrag. longifolium.The resulting hybrid, as this photo shows, bears a pouch,

despite having one pouchless parent..

Photo: Holger Perner

Paphiopedilum dianthum (unusual pouchless clone)

Dr. Perner grows this unusual pouchless Paph. dianthum - a peloric form of dianthum which produces 3, sometimes just 2 petals, but never a pouch and always 3 staminodes and 6 fertile anthers. . Unlike Phrag. lindenii, it does not self pollinate and would therefore "never form populaitons in the wild" according to Dr.Perner

Photo: Holger Perner

Phragmipedium lindenii var. wallisii - close-up of the flowers shows the smooth pouch surface with the relatively deep impression under the orifice margin.